
Leanne Hughes
Leanne Hughes is the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and is based in Brisbane, Australia. She loves to shake up expectations and create unpredictable workshop experiences; her philosophy is 'Maximum fun, minimum buzzwords'.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-building workshops across Australia, Canada, Indonesia and Mongolia and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years' of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
Leanne delivers impactful and pragmatic leadership development, and soft-skill workshops for graduates through to mid-level leaders.
In 2018, she was a finalist in the Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
Leanne Hughes is the host of the First Time Facilitator podcast and is based in Brisbane, Australia. She loves to shake up expectations and create unpredictable workshop experiences; her philosophy is 'Maximum fun, minimum buzzwords'.
Leanne has facilitated leadership, onboarding and team-building workshops across Australia, Canada, Indonesia and Mongolia and believes in a strengths-centred approach to learning and development. She has over 13 years' of experience across a range of industries including mining, government and tourism sectors.
Leanne delivers impactful and pragmatic leadership development, and soft-skill workshops for graduates through to mid-level leaders.
In 2018, she was a finalist in the Australian Learning Impact awards for Learning Professional of the Year.
The Conversation is the Relationship
- The mindset to drive your success at work (internal vs external locus of control)
- Discuss things that we can either control, influence or be concerned about (but have no control over)
- How we can build our level of influence in an organisation,...
First Time Facilitator boot-camp
I've interviewed over 80 incredible facilitators around the world to find out how they create engaging training that sticks; teamed with and put these ideas into two headings, to
Workshop design
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Profiling your audience
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Writing effective workshop objectives to meet the intended learning outcome
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Learning simple Instructional Design principles to help your content and activities hit the...
How to charismatically create lasting change
Format: 60-90 minute keynote, workshop, or breakout session.
This program is perfect for:
- Leaders in organisations driving change
- Change management and project management leaders
The audience will leave with ideas on:
- Why your change initiatives aren’t working, and what this is costing your business
- How to neutralise resistance when a change...


